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In worldly life the phenomenon of policy which has never lost its importance and continues to be influential in almost every field, has had a say in man's approach to divine revelation throughout history. The same is true for those who have lived or are living in Islamic geographies, no matter what level of society they belong to. As a matter of fact, what is revealed within the scope of the science of tafsir, which we can describe as understanding the revelation of the Qur’an, transferring it to people and adapting it to life, has been greatly influenced by political perceptions. Although the wording remains the same, the Qur’an has become open to countless interpretations due to the special structure of the text, the living conditions of those who try to understand it, and the nature of the interpretation activity. As a tafsir scholar, the author, in this work, deals with the effect of politics on the interpretation of the Qur’an in the context of what happened in the first centuries of Islamic history and as objectively as possible. The main starting point of the author is that despite some formal differences, political thought affects all societies and the past should be read more carefully in order to display sensible approaches to the Qur’an, away from conceptual confusion and intellectual turmoil. The work, in which the tafsir, guided by political events and targets, is evaluated under the name of “political tafsir” and in a wide range, consists of an introduction and three parts. The introduction is devoted to the historical background of the first period of political commentary. In the first part, the theoretical dimension of political commentary is presented especially in the example of the first political separations. In the second part, ideological readings, which are considered as a method in making tafsir a political material, are scrutinized. The third chapter is devoted to the conceptual elements of political theory that are tried to be supported by the Qur’an. In this section, it is revealed how the relationship between the two main sides of politics, the ruler and the ruled, determines the approach to the Qur’an, and how some verses are used in these relations. Although it is limited to a certain period of time due to the breadth of the subject, the work is within a kilometer of the correct analysis of the point where tafsir has reached today.

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